China requirements: You’ll need a visa if you plan to stay in China longer than 72 hours, but this requirement may soon be doubled to 144 hours per the Shaingai Daily.

I used Google Flights to find exact dates and organized the screen shots by departure city. After you find the flight that you want, I recommend booking on Orbitz so you can earn Orbitz Rewards in addition to airline miles.

Special requirements: the cheapest fares are widely available during the above dates.

Other notes: most flights are on American’s older Boeing 777-200 (no wifi)

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Conclusion

I’ve never been to China but I put a flight on hold for a possible mileage run because these fares are great! American Airlines ends its distanced-based redeemable miles frequent flier program in the second half of 2016 and transitions to a fare-based redeemable miles frequent flier program. This switch is devastating for those of us who fly on cheap fares and it would reduce the number of redeemable miles earned from ~14,000 older the old program to ~3,000 miles. Either way, if you plan to fly to China you’ll want to book quickly.

Related

I’m going to PEK this weekend. It was on one of the previous deals. My SWU cleared for the return so that will be an awesome way to relax on the way home. You can book HKG for about the same price right now though so if I was booking another one I would do that. Although most of the days where the sale fare works the majority of the MCE seats are taken now so it is unlikely that an SWU will clear.